In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

By Lawrence Wright

Book Overview

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one man's coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. - A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change. --The Philadelphia Inquirer

We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades--the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan--we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years.

Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy's America would come to its shocking end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345802950
• ISBN13: 9780345802958
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating

I picked up this book on a whim and found it engrossing from the first page. Since I was born after the baby boomers, It explained alot of things that I had always wanted to learn more about. Certain cultural references made about those times have been cleared up for me. I didn't give it five stars because it is a little wordy, but it is a great commentary on our culture. Read this book if you are a history buff.

This was a good book.

Although I had to read this book for school, I found it to be suprisingly good. I would reccomend this book.